OCCUPY

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Seattle Protesters Hit With Stun Grenades

LUCY NICHOLSON

Dec. 12, 2011
Long Beach, California
A protester faces riot police during an attempt to shut down West Coast ports

In Seattle, demonstrators crowded near the evicted 'Occupy' tent camp and marched to the city's Terminal 18 port, where police used stun grenades and pepper spray to run them away to another port, Terminal 5. Though there were only a few reported arrests, the protest coincides with a NFL game, and will make traffic a nightmare. Meanwhile, protesters shut down two major shipping terminals in Portland, Ore. Pickets were set up from San Diego to Anchorage in an effort to cut off shipping terminals up the entire West Coast. Though Occupiers said they were attempting to show their support for union workers’ rights, the largest unions at the Northwest ports didn’t endorse the shutdowns.